Biotechnology Lawyer Joins Albrecht Tousi & Farnum PLLC
Law firm
Susan Dadio joins DC-Area Intellectual Property Law
Boutique Firm -- Albrecht Tousi & Farnum PLLC
WASHINGTON,
DC April 17, 2011 -- Albrecht Tousi
& Farnum PLLC announced the addition of Susan M. Dadio
as Of Counsel to its year-old intellectual property (IP) boutique based
in Washington, DC (http://www.atfirm.com). Founders Ralph P. Albrecht, Cameron H. Tousi,
and David M. Farnum, formerly of
Venable LLP, recently celebrated the anniversary of the firm’s founding
of March 1, 2010. The firm
continues to focus on the enforcement and procurement of IP rights for
its clients.
Ms. Dadio is an experienced trial lawyer and
former partner and chair of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney’s
Biotechnology Group. Ms. Dadio focuses on complex, high-stakes patent
litigation with emphasis in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and
chemical arts. She also uses her litigation experience and patent
prosecution background to counsel and assist clients with all types of
strategic patent matters, including procurement and portfolio
management, due diligence and opinions, patent term extensions and
interferences. Ms. Dadio was also previously a partner with Burns, Doane, Swecker &
Mathis, LLP prior to its merger with Buchanan.
Albrecht
Tousi & Farnum
PLLC represents clients of all sizes from startups, to emerging growth
companies, to innovative publicly traded corporations. Ms. Dadio
will further broaden the wide range of technologies for which the firm
represents clients in all avenues of technology and intellectual
property protection and enforcement, from licensing and litigation, to
technology transactions, to building sophisticated domestic patent
prosecution and outbound foreign filing programs.
Ms. Dadio, is Treasurer and Board Member of
the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (BADC), and was
previously Secretary and Chair of the BADC’s Patent Trademark Copyright
(PTC) Section. Ms. Dadio has represented clients before the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office and in various district courts across the
country in both jury and bench trials. She has also represented clients
and amicus curiae in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ms.
Dadio also has a broad range of experience
with respect to the Hatch-Waxman Act. For instance, she has represented
clients in pharmaceutical patent litigations, commonly known as
Paragraph IV ANDA patent litigations, based on the Hatch-Waxman Act.
Susan has also assisted a variety of clients in obtaining patent term
extensions under 35 U.S.C. § 156.
Ms. Dadio will continue her patent litigation,
licensing and procurement practice at Albrecht Tousi
& Farnum PLLC (http://www.atfirm.com).
“Joining
Albrecht Tousi & Farnum
PLLC will allow me to continue to provide IP services to my Life
Science clients at a time when businesses across the country and around
the globe are seeking creative, cost effective solutions to
increasingly difficult legal and financial challenges," Ms. Dadio said.
"We could not be more pleased that Susan Dadio has joined our firm to further strengthen the
firm and to allow us to broaden the array of services we may offer our
high tech clients," Mr. Albrecht said.
About
Albrecht Tousi & Farnum
PLLC
Albrecht
Tousi & Farnum
PLLC (www.atfirm.com), with its headquarters in Washington,
DC, is a leader in all areas of intellectual property, including patent
enforcement and defense, commercialization, and procurement. Albrecht Tousi & Farnum’s
attorneys have extensive experience in patent litigation, licensing and
prosecution. The firm represents clients in various industries
including the financial services, medical devices, high technology,
telecommunications, information technology, entertainment and media,
computer hardware, software and video game technologies, consumer products,
government contractors, biotechnology and life sciences. With a
worldwide network of associate law firm counsel, the firm is able to
build global patent portfolios, while providing cost effective legal
services representation and alternative fee based procurement,
licensing and enforcement legal services. Each of the firm’s lawyers
has over a decade of experience representing all sizes of clients from
Fortune 500 companies, midsize and emerging growth businesses,
government contractors, small business, and individual inventors.
SOURCE Albrecht Tousi & Farnum PLLC
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